• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It is impossible for a being to be omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent given the amount of suffering in the world. They can only be two of the three at most:

    Omnipotent + omniscient = Knows about evil, can stop it, but chooses not to.

    Omnipotent + benevolent = Can do something about evil and wants to stop it, is too oblivious to on a large scale.

    Omniscient + benevolent = Knows about evil and wants to stop it, is powerless to do anything significant about it.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, that’s the way most people see it.

      As it happens, people don’t generally talk about it very much. For some reason.

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        If they’re believers it’s because god is “good” no matter what he does or allows to happen.